Adjustable ink reser voir for pens



Oct. 6, 1925' 1,556,545

J., M. QUICKE I ADJUS-TABLE'INK RESERVDIRFOR PENS Filed Marsh 10, 1924 111" wnwMQ i "J ZIE'M'M rm awe unmad- Patented Oct. 6, 1925.

ADJUSTABLE, 1m; mama Ion inane.

epr s ti l -mp 10, .42 si i a -a e To all whom 2'2 may concern Be it knownthat'l, JAMES'M. Quronn, a .citi zenotthe United States, residing 'at Petersburg, in the county o f.v Dinwiddie' and State ,ofVirginia,.have invented certain new and useful Improvements in A'djusta'ble'lnk Reservoirs for Pens; and I-do' hereby declare the following to be a,u11,fc1 r, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others I skilled in the, art :to which it appertain's to make and use the same.

Theipresent invention relates to improvements .in adjustable I reservoirs for: pens. v The objects of theinvention are to provide an adjustable attachment tothe ordinary pen whereby the same may be converted into a fountain pen; toprovide an attachment that is adjustable and detachable, thev attachment havingthe following characteristics.

It" has noconnection with the penholder; it; is not made, part .of, 1or as a fi xture 'attached to a particular: pen; it requires: no notches, slots, or projections in or on the pen, nor any extra work on pen or device for the purpose of attachment and adjustment to pen; it is adjustable automatically t0 pen without effort and without alteration in pen or device; it is adjustable automatically to any pen of any shape or size within reasonable limits; it is detachable from one pen and transferable to another with equal ease; it may be removed and replaced with another in case of clogging with dried or p and the head 15 provided with thecurled gummed ink; it has no effect on the writing qualities of the pen, except increase of capacity; it is neither unsightly nor cumbersome; it is designed for manufacture and sale separately from the pen, and without regard to any particular pen; cost of manufacture will be very small, possibly about ten cents a hundred; not more than two sizes of the device would be required to accommodate all usual sizes and styles of pens; it can be made of celluloid or semi-hard rubber as well as of thin spring metal.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention will be more fully described hereinafter, and will be more particularly pointed out in the claim appended hereto.

In the drawings, wherein like symbols refer to like or corresponding parts throughout the several views, v

Figure 1 is a top plan-view of a pen with h imp oved a hment rmpluiite th r n- Figure :2 is an under plan'- view" of the r g is a sid iv ewof the arrangemQ t. S .Sh .WI .Ii Figural. V "Figure 4 is a longitudinal lseetion taken on the line 4- -4 in Figure 1; V "Eigurefiisfa 'crossflsection taken on the line '5 f-5"alsflo iln Figure 1. j

gure 61sv a pl n ew oij he att chment disassfociaftedfromflthepen F gure? sl1a;p1 niew of v s n a da tachment ,showinga slight modiiijcation, and Figure 8 isf'a 'longitudinalf'section taken ont i i 8- flin'Figure'7i i, fe n mor p rtcul flyto he drawings and; ."fQi the Present to the preferred orm jot he inv n i n show in F giires to 6 inclusive'f9die jignates generally aipen o h usua vor any des red iorjn v h i g a poin 10 and'thesidewings remot r he Point and rem'gt f mth lslo 1 wh e tefid w rdly ".aappre ia le dis a mm connected the" outer end"-ofthe slot 12 and the pen point.

All pens are usually made of this general form, although modifications occur in the Way of size, shape and in the position of the slot, etc. trated alone in Figure 6 and forms an adjustable and detachable accessory in connection with any form, style or size of the en. This device consists of the tongue 14 spring arms 16. The head 15 and spring arms 16 are preferably of rather narrow material, and the spring arms 16 are rolled in the manner indicated in Figure 5 whereby they may embrace the sides of the Wings 11 of the pen and thus hold the attachment on the pen, the tongue 14 being curled upwardly from the head 15 to the pen point 10 or approximately to the point; it bein understood that the device is adjustable ongitudinally u on the pen. In this way the reservoir can be brought to any desired location with respect to the pen point and the feeding of the ink may be regulated in this way.

The tongue 14 will form a reservoir with the opposed parts of the pen and a" considerable body of ink may be retained in this reservoir, dipping the pen beneath the surface of the ink. The tongue is preferably wide in the The present invention is illusthe ink being received by merely I central portion as shown in Figure 6 and tapers outwardly to agree with the formation of the pen point.

As shown in Figures 7 and 8 the tongue 14 is located upon the top of the pen .9? and the head 15' is provided with similar spring arms 16 except for the fact that these arms are bent downwardly and rolled in the opposite direction to engage within the wings of the pen 9 rather than upon the outside surfaces thereof as shown by the first form of the invention. In addition the tongue may be bent outwardly as indicated at 17 in order to forma space between the pen and tongue to receive an adequate body of the ink.

In operation the pen is simply dipped in the fluid body of ink, it acquiring a large body of ink held in the reservoir, so that resort to the ink well is required only infrequently. The device may be removed at any time and replaced by a fresh device and the arrangement admits of an adjustability which is extremely desirable particularly where the same attachment is used on a large number of styles of pens. Thedevice forms a convenient slip-on attachment in which the adjustment is made by means of springs. The device provides for automatic adjustability to the size and shape of the pen the scope of the automatic adjustment being very wide without diminishing the elasticity of the pen or causing its points to spread. This is accomplished by means of the narrow convoluted springs into which the arms are bent for the purposes of attachment and adjustment, since the springs in this form operate laterally, vertically and lingitudinally. It is of course understood that the material is very thin and highly resilent. The device has been shown to give excellent results in actual practice.

It is obvious that various changes and modifications may be made in the details of construction and design of the above specifically described embodiment of this invention without departing from the spirit thereof, such changes and modifications being restricted only by the scope of the following claim.

What is claimed is An adjustable ink reservoir for pens, comprising a tongue, and a head on the inner end of the tongue, said head having curled spring arms adapted to yieldably and adjustably engage the opposite wings of a pen and support the head across the pen, said tongue being curved inwardly from the head toward the point of the pen to space the intermediate portion of the tongue from the pen and provide a reservoir for ink, said curled spring arms being narrow and the curled spring portions thereof being adapted to bind and rock on said wings of the pen to yieldingly hold the end of the tongue against the point of the pen and adapt the device to pens of various types;

JAMES M. QUIOKE. 

